Sentence examples for extortion payment from inspiring English sources

A recent survey there found that young people mainly blame the Mafia for high unemployment and cite the pizzo (extortion payment) as the main reason they would not consider starting a business.

Investigators said the failed bug worried them because they thought it might scare off the stalker, but by this point Mr. Tereshchuk had already demanded his $17 million extortion payment.

I think holding people's memories hostage in demand of an extortion payment would be a fairly horrific crime.

Rivera's friend Oscar Donald Rosas, an engineer, was kidnapped by the FARC in 1997 when he was called to a rural area to make an extortion payment, known here as a vacuna or "vaccine".

Senior Taliban commanders send him demands for extortion payments, sometimes from Pakistani phone numbers.

Then gangs started appearing in our neighborhood and demanding renta, or extortion payments.

Mr. Savandi and Mr. Mansouri collected more than $6 million in extortion payments, law enforcement officials said.

"You do not miss your country here," said Mr. Carmona, who left to avoid extortion payments to rebels.

They justify extortion payments, and they justify bribes by saying they're doing only what their rivals are doing.

Guerrillas and their paramilitary adversaries have long been involved in mining, often using it and related businesses like cattle ranching to launder money and to extract extortion payments.

Mobsters are thought to be demanding ever-larger extortion payments to fund the families of the growing number of their jailed colleagues.